Doing a good thing, not for best reason

Jan. 28, 2013

Written by

James Alan Fox

President Obama's anti-gun proposals -- including universal background checks, an assault weapons ban and curbs on high-capacity magazines -- will do more to reduce everyday gun violence than prevent mass shootings.

Unfortunately, there are already many extraordinarily lethal weapons in circulation. Moving forward will feel like having to bail out the Titanic with a paper cup. And, without minimizing the well-meaning groundswell in the wake of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., it is sad and ironic that it took the violent deaths of so many children and teachers to get ...